Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which has GPU core speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon RX 480		13349 points
Radeon RX 570		12108 points
	Difference: 1241 (10%)

Zcash Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 570		298 Sol/s
Radeon RX 480		280 Sol/s
	Difference: 18 (6%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		27 Mh/s
Radeon RX 570		26 Mh/s
	Difference: 1 (4%)

Monero Mining Hash Rate

Radeon RX 480		800 h/s
Radeon RX 570		600 h/s
	Difference: 200 (33%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 480 should theoretically be a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 570 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		262144 MB/sec
Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 480 is a small bit (approximately 8%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 570. (explain)

Radeon RX 480		161280 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11776 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 570 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 480		35840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1536 (4%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.